Sister Reagan Garrick

I bear witness of the power of Christ's Atonement. It is real. Life can get really hard. There are trials and heartaches in our lives everyday. There are times we want to give up. There are times we feel no direction, no strength to bear our burdens, no answer to our questions. But Heavenly Father is aware of you. He loves you. He promises to help you, guide you, comfort and strengthen you. All you have to do is turn to His Son, our Savior, Jesus Christ. He has paid the price for your sins. He has felt the pain of your heartaches and trials. It is through Him, and only Him, that we can have everlasting joy and peace. He can provide us with strength beyond our own. Sometimes your burden will be lightened and He will help carry your load. Sometimes, your physical trials won't get any easier, but He will strengthen your back to carry the burden placed upon it. He loves you and knows you personally! Christ knows how you feel with a perfect knowledge. Turn to him! He is ready, will...

.Soo Tuesday night we had a Relief Society activity for self defense... it was very interesting haha it was like Rex Kwando from Napoleon Dynamite but in his 60s with white hair.  We learned some techniques though! Wednesday morning we had an awesome lesson over face book messenger with Jhonaton! He's a returning less active in our YSA. He is feasting on the words of Christ as he studies and ponders the Book of Mormon. He had so many good questions, and we were glad we were having our lesson over messenger so we could look up the answers to some of his questions with different resources the church has. Wednesday was also the day it rained, all day long! It was the first rainy day I've had on my whole mission! We were walking for a couple hours that night in the rain, and sister hall was hoping we'd get splashed by a car driving past haha.. Thursday we had dinner and a lesson with Brittany and Liz! It was nice to est with them at their apartment and have a good lesso...

Sister Hall and I are both staying here!  Bad news first: I was sick all day Friday and has to stay home and rest all day... but good news: I received a priesthood blessing and was healed of my sickness by Saturday morning! :) We had Surena's baptism on Saturday! Shes so awesome and a great example to her family! She followed her Great Grandma's (Mary) example, who we baptized a couple months ago! They are just awesome and have become like family. I love them so much. Its so cool to witness their growth in the gospel. Surena taught us the 10 commandments, that we taught her, and about other commandments like the word of wisdom, law of chastity, etc.  Church on Sunday was super good. Lots of great talks, and Troybelle was able to bring her granddaughter and great grandson to church! Troybelle is getting baptized in a couple weeks and is sooo ready. We had a lesson on temples and she is so excited to go through the temple in a year already haha she is just so prepared b...

We painted over graffiti for a kids eagle scout project, pictures from a couple district meetings, FHE activity with the YSA, matching Arizona shirts Note from Sister Garrick's mom:  I got a message from Reagan for everyone: " This has been a crazy week but tell everyone I love them and I just didn't have time to prepare a weekly email sorryyy but Brittany who got baptized last week, we are baptizing her roommate next month now!"